Name: The persistence of memory
Artist: Salvador Dalí
Date: 1931
Location(Painted in): Madrid, Spain
Location(kept in): Museum of Modern art, New York City, New York, USA
Description: Salvador Dalí was a well Known surrealist of his time he said. "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and
time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic
order". The orange clock in the bottom left corner is covered in ants as a symbol of decay.
Artist: Salvador Dalí
Date: 1931
Location(Painted in): Madrid, Spain
Location(kept in): Museum of Modern art, New York City, New York, USA
Description: Salvador Dalí was a well Known surrealist of his time he said. "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and
time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic
order". The orange clock in the bottom left corner is covered in ants as a symbol of decay.